All, I did a search but could not find any app that allows setting a dimmer below 10% as part of a “hello home” or mode change command.

I’d like to be able to have certain lights dim to 1% when I set the mode to “night.” I know the bulbs will dim to 1% because I can manually dim them to this level using the slider on the light’s tile. When I want to make this automatic, I am however, limited to 10%, 20%, 30% etc.

Anyone know of an app that lets me do this? I have NO programming knowledge, so I’m looking for a copy and paste deal…

@potus, are you using LED bulbs? I’ve noticed that 10% on a LED bulb provide way more than 10% of the light, it would seem. Makes me think that there must be some kind of non-linear profile mapped against the % that maybe was set up for an incandescent bulb.

Like @craig wrote, changing the list of possible settings is super easy once you get past the learning curve of the IDE.

Thanks for the responses. I managed to find a scene creator app published by Anthony Pastor that appears to meet my need. I’ll give it a shot tonight to see if it works. Learning to code is on my “to do” list.

So, new question. I (now) use several overhead lights set on 1% as nightlights when I am in night mode. If I am in night mode, and manually turn on the light at the switch to 100%, when I turn off the light at the switch, it will turn off, rather than go back to 1%.

Is there an app that addresses this? Basically, it would be logic statement that if mode X and dimmer Y is toggled off, turn on dimmer Y and dim it to setting Z.

There’s not an app but if you started writing your own this is what you need to do:

Listen for the “OFF” command. When you get the off command turn the light back on at 1%. To make this program even more simple don’t worry about the mode aspect of it. Once you install the app STs typically allows you to determine what modes to run a mode on.

Listen = Subscribe. If you haven’t already, it is worth it to take a look at the documentation: http://docs.smartthings.com/en/latest/. If you give this a go, there are a lot of folks who will help you here.

I currently have 9 modes. 4 modes are "automatic", and are run based on either (1) time of day or (2) sunset/sunrise (ex: Sleepytime, Morning, Day, and Night). The other 5 modes are used when I invoke them manually (Dinner, BabySitting, Late, Movies, Vacation). As I discuss below, I don't set up Home/Away modes - instead rely on virtual switches to check if certain combinations of family members are present.
I use the following three Apps (the code for all three Apps can be found here for setting up and controlling different scenes for every room, for different times, for difference family members, and for all 9 of my Modes:
Whole House Scene Creation and Control App - sets up Color, Levels, and/or On/Off for any Mode you have. Most of the code of this App comes from the wonderfu…